Start with any picture
Choose a favorite from your photo library and turn it into a puzzle in a few taps.
Your pictures. Your puzzles.
Every picture has a puzzle inside.
Turn favorite photos and brand-new creations into satisfying puzzles you can play anywhere.
3×3 · Easy
Made from your photo ✨
Made for little moments of play
Pick it. Mix it. Solve it.
Create something new
Use Image Playground to dream up an original image, then make it playable.
Choose your challenge
Keep it breezy at 3×3 or work your way up to a satisfying 5×5 challenge.
Build your collection
Save, name, sort, and organize puzzles so your next play is always close by.
Built as a playground
One app. A growing collection of experiments.
Puzzleground began as my way to explore iOS 27 and the newest Apple platform technologies. It is a real puzzle app, but it is also where I learn by building, testing, and refining ideas in public.
On-device intelligence
Apple’s Foundation Models framework suggests puzzle and group names locally, while Image Playground turns new ideas into playable artwork.
- Foundation Models ↗
- Image Playground ↗
- Graceful availability handling
New SwiftUI interactions
The puzzle board explores iOS 27’s reorderable and reorder-container APIs alongside a custom drag implementation.
Siri and system intelligence
Puzzles become system entities that Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and the Action button can discover and act on.
Local-first by design
Puzzle images, titles, organization, and progress stay in the local library, with automatic restoration between sessions.
- Automatic progress saving
- Private local puzzle library
- Search and organization
Product experiments
Remote configuration and privacy-conscious telemetry help compare reordering ideas and understand the solve experience.
- Remote Config variants
- Interaction and completion metrics
- Crash diagnostics
Thoughtful app details
The smaller experiments matter too: photo alignment, persistent progress, accessible play aids, tips, search, and organization.
Test it in your language
Help make Puzzleground feel at home everywhere.
Join the beta, play before launch, and help me review the words and phrases that make the app feel natural—not merely translated.
You can validate a language already in the app or suggest one for a future version. In exchange for your time and language expertise, you’ll get early access and a direct hand in shaping Puzzleground.
Become a beta language tester
Send a short email with:
- Your Apple Account email, so I can invite you through TestFlight
- The languages you speak, read, or write
- Whether you want to review an existing translation or request a new language
Your email will only be used for beta access and communication about your feedback.
Follow along
The pieces are coming together.
Follow @PuzzleGroundApp for launch news, new features, and satisfying solves.